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The great forgetting

The past, present and future of Social Democracy and the Welfare State

By: Jack Lawrence Luzkow

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The great forgetting

The past, present and future of Social Democracy and the Welfare State

By: Jack Lawrence Luzkow

Today the US and the UK are at a crossroads. Millions are out of work, millions (in the US) are still deprived of health care, millions have lost their homes, and we are collectively more unequal than we have been since the 1920s. Both countries will experience massive social upheavals if they don’t reduce social inequality, invest massively in education and infrastructure, commit themselves to securing jobs for all who want them, change tax structures that coddle the 1 percent, rein in the anarchy of big banks by reregulating (or nationalising) them, and liberate the captive state from the financial institutions of Wall Street and the City of London. Social inequality is neither inevitable, nor the result of globalisation. It is the outcome of social and economic policies embraced by the 1 percent. This can be reversed by more social democracy, not less, by recovering the state for the 99 percent.

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Manchester University Press

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0719098440

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Monopoly Restored

How the Super-Rich Robbed Main Street

By: Jack Lawrence Luzkow

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Monopoly Restored

How the Super-Rich Robbed Main Street

By: Jack Lawrence Luzkow

This book is a work of contemporary economic history focusing primarily on the US and the UK. It shows that, historically, much of the wealth of the ultra-wealthy has been based on inheritance, tax evasion, political influence, or wage theft. Today, much of the wealth of the rentier class—the super-rich—is based on income from ownership or control of scarce assets, or assets artificially made scarce. As a result, the super-rich reap much of their wealth from patents, monopolies, and subsidies. Their banks retain the right to speculate on risky derivatives, and their credit-card companies are not limited by usury laws that reduce interest rates. The super-rich have lowered (or escaped) inheritance taxes, shifted much of their income to lower taxed capital gains, practiced wage theft, fought minimum wage laws, outsourced jobs, and resorted to temps and contract labor to avoid unions and decent wages. They use tax havens where trillions of dollars remain untaxed, transfer profits of their intellectual and financial property to subsidiaries in low-tax regimes, and defend for-profit health insurance that is unaffordable and inequitable for millions. This book states in qualitative and quantitative terms how expensive the super-rich have become, why they are unsustainable for the rest of us, and what the way forward to greater economic equality may be. In sum, the super-rich are unaffordable.

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3319939947

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Monopoly Restored

How the Super-Rich Robbed Main Street

By: Jack Lawrence Luzkow

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The Birthday Present

By: Jack Lawrence Luzkow

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The Birthday Present

By: Jack Lawrence Luzkow

The Birthday Present begins with a violent accidental death, or it begins with a staged murder that is part of an act of revenge by a jilted love. Or it begins when Max Klein narrates the events of a novel that suddenly seems to be happening to him. In this debut novel by American author Jack Lawrence Luzkow, a hopeful writer, Max Klein, finds himself lost in the gap between his disappearing youth and approaching middle age. Dismayed by the prospect that his writing is going nowhere, unable to return Vera Sheltonbs love for him and afraid that he has created expectations he canbt fulfill, Klein abandons an apparent paradise in rustic Illinois and sets off for the West Coast. In California, along the solitary shores of the Pacific, he meets a woman who is capable of giving him back everything he thinks he has lost. But the more he learns about Liana Varlova, the more he fears that she may or may not be who she says she is, and that her grandfather, the man with whom she lives, may be her husband or father or both. Beguiled by the mystery that surrounds him, a mystery in which identity becomes more and more blurred and nothing is as it appears, Klein soon comes to doubt his own senses and finally his identity as well. Too late, he realizes that the novel he has always wanted to create is happening to him, but he is not the author.

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Parma House Books

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0970172311

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The great forgetting

The past, present and future of Social Democracy and the Welfare State

By: Jack Lawrence Luzkow

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The past, present and future of Social Democracy and the Welfare State

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